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Jack the Ripper – a woman could have found him!

Tony McMahon2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

In 1888, a Victorian woman wrote to The Times newspaper rightly indignant that Scotland Yard refused to countenance the idea of female detectives being sent to investigate the Jack the Ripper murders in Whitechapel. Sir Charles Warren, London’s police chief, had just breezily dismissed the idea of women being recruited to investigate the Whitechapel murders….

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Stealing underwear in a Victorian workhouse

Tony McMahon11 years ago2 years ago03 mins

Theft was endemic in Victorian London. Going through court records, one encounters a constant flood of petty stealing. And it wasn’t just precious items like gold watches and jewellery but clothes, bed covers, trousers and even underwear! You have to think of a world where many people had next to nothing. Such was the miserable…

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